The Digital Standards Organization have launched the Hague Declaration online petition calling on all governments to use Open Standards:
- Procure only information technology that implements free and open standards;
- Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open standards;
- Use only free and open digital standards in their own activities.
As public bodies, spending pulic money (at least in democracies), it seems to me that this is the only ethical course of action open to them.
Keywords: Digital Standards Organization, Hauge Declaration, Open Standards